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Dewsbury

(Encyclopedia) Dewsbury Dewsbury dy&oomacr;zˈbərē [key], town, Kirklees metropolitan district, N central England,…

Chicoutimi, city, Canada

(Encyclopedia) Chicoutimi Chicoutimi shĭk&oomacr;ˈtĭmēˌ [key], city, S Que., Canada, at the confluence of the…

Hugli-Chinsura

(Encyclopedia) Hugli-Chinsura or Hooghly-Chinsura Hooghly-Chinsura both: h&oomacr;ˈglē…

High Wycombe

(Encyclopedia) High Wycombe High Wycombe wĭkˈəm [key], city, Buckinghamshire, S England. The city is well known for…

Quezon

(Encyclopedia) Quezon, province (1990 pop. 1,372,445), E central Luzon, the Philippines. Lucena is the capital. A long, narrow province bordering on the Philippine Sea and containing in part the…

Rivière du Loup

(Encyclopedia) Rivière du LoupRivière du Louprēvyĕrˈ dü l&oomacr; [key], city (1991 pop. 14,017), E Que., Canada, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, NE of Quebec. It is a commercial…

Saint Hyacinthe

(Encyclopedia) Saint HyacintheSaint Hyacinthesānt hīˈəsĭnth, Fr. săNtyäsăNtˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 38,292), S Que., Canada, on the Yamaska River, NE of Montreal. It is an industrial center, with…

Salzgitter

(Encyclopedia) SalzgitterSalzgitterzältsˈgĭtˈər [key], city (1994 pop. 117,684), Lower Saxony, N central Germany. Situated in one of the richest iron-ore producing regions in W Germany, it has blast…

Barisal

(Encyclopedia) Barisal Barisal bərĭsälˈ [key], city, S Bangladesh, on the Ganges River delta. It is an important…

Ptolemaïs, town, Greece

(Encyclopedia) PtolemaïsPtolemaïsptôlĭmīsˈ [key], town (1991 pop. 25,195), N Greece, in Macedonia. It was a small market town until 1958, when it began to be developed as an industrial center.…